Days passed and neither Miku nor Luka heard anything from Master about the pinkette's possible addition to the schedule, causing Luka to spiral back into semi-depression. She glared at Kaito whenever he walked into a room and one word out of his mouth, even if not directed at her, would cause her hand to twitch toward the knives in the kitchen.
Miku grew increasingly worried that Luka would do something rash and always distracted the pinkette whenever Kaito was near so that Luka focused on her rather than the azul menace. For the most part, it worked. Miku was usually around whenever Luka and Kaito were in the same room, and if it wasn't Miku then it was Lily.
However, there were days in which Lily and Miku were working at the same time and Luka was left home to lounge on the couch eating tuna while they were away, writing songs as she did. One afternoon, Kaito walked into the living room while the house was relatively empty. Miku and Meiko were at the studio, the twins had gone to the park and Haku needed Lily's help writing a duet. The only ones home were Master, Kaito and Luka.
Luka was working on a new song, a Halloween duet she wanted to perform with Miku called Kagome, Kagome. She was brainstorming ideas for the second verse when Kaito walked in and plopped on the couch. The pinkette worked to ignore him as he switched on the television and searched for something to watch. The pair were together in tense silence, neither looking to the other for fear of an argument starting and no one to step in.
Luka smiled as she finished up the verse and stood to grab a drink from the kitchen. When she returned, Kaito was looking over the song and snickering softly. "What garbage." he sneered, tossing the papers back to the table. "I can't believe Miku would sink this low. This is worse than Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance."
Luka snarled angrily and stormed over. "Better than anything you could ever come up with." she spat, gathering up her supplies.
"Oh please, I could come up with something better than that in my sleep." Kaito smirked. "Face it, you're bringing Miku down with your lack of talent. Everything you write is stilted and uneven. Some Vocaloid."
Luka snarled angrily and her hand whirled to smack him in the head. Kaito's hand came up and pushed hers down, only for it to collide with his ice cream. He shouted in surprise as it spilled over. Standing furiously, the blunette picked up the ice cream container and threw it at Luka, the melting substance splattering every surface. Luka dodged it and rolled to the side, noticing that the sheets she had been working on were now ruined. Growling angrily, the pinkette jumped up and swiped a pair of scissors one of the twins had left on the television.
"I'm going to kill you!" Luka roared, leaping for the blunette. Kaito screamed and ducked, dodging out of the way and making for the stairs. Luka whirled around and pounded after him, her eyes red as she zeroed in on her target. Kaito shut himself in his room, locking the door and moving the dresser in front of it. He was in the process of moving the bed as well when there came a loud bang at the door.
"Nothing can save you this time, Brainfreeze!" Luka snarled, ramming the door again.
"Master will!" Kaito shouted back, still moving his bed.
"Not if I kill you before he gets to me." the pinkette hissed, taking a running start and smashing her way through the wall. Kaito shrieked in terror as Luka advanced on him, twirling the blades with a malicious grin on her lips.
"What were you saying about Miku's song?" the pinkette asked lowly, raising the scissors above her head.
"HELP!" Kaito shouted. At that moment, a door opened and Master looked in. At the same time, the front door burst open and Miku pounded up the stairs with Meiko on her heels. Meiko held Master off while Miku jumped at Luka just as the pink-haired woman brought the blade down.
There was the screech and clatter of metal as everything froze. Luka's eyes flashed back to blue as she stared at what she had done in horror. Falling to her knees, she stared at the wound she had created in her beloved's arm. Miku waited until she was sure Luka was no longer a threat before lowering her arm and kneeling in front of her girlfriend.
"M-Miku…" Luka choked, eyes wide.
"Luka, it's okay." Miku told her. "Master can fix it." She reached out a hand to stroke the sakura locks, but Luka flinched away, glancing down at her hands sorrowfully.
"I hurt you." she sniffed.
"Better me than Kaito." Miku chuckled. This caused Luka's eyes to flash red once more.
"Do you… have feelings for him?" she asked slowly, eyes flickering between the two colors.
"Kaito?" Miku's nose wrinkled in disgust. "I have more feelings for a slug than I do Kaito. No Luka, I only have my heart set on you."
Luka nodded and sighed. "I failed, didn't I?"
"It's not your fault." Miku soothed her. "He started it."
"How would you know?" Kaito exclaimed.
"Because you always start it!" Miku snapped, rounding on him and smacking him with her uninjured arm. "Now she's even less likely to go to the studio because you don't know how to leave well enough alone."
"Talk about a brat!" Kaito spat. "All you care about is getting your precious toy into the studio! She could have killed me!"
"And would have had I not stopped her." Miku retorted. "It doesn't matter that all I want is Luka to be happy. All you should be thinking about is the fact that, no matter what reason I did it, I saved your life. Maybe I did it for selfish reasons, but you're alive, aren't you?"
Kaito grumbled at her before standing and brushing himself off. "Now I have to go to one of the guest rooms because my wall is destroyed." He turned hard blue eyes on Luka. "I expect it to be fixed soon."
Luka, still lost in despair at what she had done, simply nodded. "Yes, Brainfreeze." she replied softly.
Meiko watched Kaito head down the stairs, complaining about ice cream. She turned to the saddened pinkette in the room as Miku tried again to touch her. "You shouldn't touch me." Luka told her, flinching back. "I could have done so much worse. If I had aimed a little higher-."
"Don't think about it." Miku cooed to her, pulling her into a hug. "All that matters is that you didn't kill anybody, okay? Everything is going to be okay."
"Maybe I'm not stable enough to leave the house." Luka whispered, standing and picking Miku up, carrying her to Master. "You can fix her, right?" she pleaded.
Master slowly nodded, taking Miku from Luka and carrying her off to his study. Meiko turned to the pinkette as she watched her girlfriend get taken for repair. "Luka, what happened?"
"He said the song was garbage." Luka replied softly. "He said that… that Miku was sinking low, that I was dragging her down because I didn't have any talent. And then there was ice cream on the song sheets and one of us threw something… he would have deserved it."
Meiko sighed and put a hand on the pinkette's shoulder, but pulled her hand back when Luka flinched once more. "Please," Luka whispered. "I don't want to hurt you too."
Meiko nodded and guided Luka to her room, sitting with her as they waited for Miku to be finished with repairs.
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